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A female member of the Tree Top Piru Bloods gang implicated in murder and drug trafficking was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors in Baltimore. Michelle "Michelle Hell" Hebron, 25, of Hagerstown and Annapolis, had pleaded guilty in federal court in April to a charge of racketeering conspiracy and also admitted killing a person she believed was a rival gang member, prosecutors said. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. sentenced Hebron to 30 years in prison plus five years of supervised probation.

In two short years, Mount Hebron High School has gone from a relatively unknown school in the study of economics to a contender in the National Economics Challenge. Of the 1,200 schools that originally entered the competition, the four-member team from Mount Hebron is one of six finalists vying for the championship this weekend in New York City. The quick ascension comes as no surprise to the team's coach, Vann Prime. "This is a very gifted group of young men," said Prime, who has taught at Mount Hebron for five years.

Hebron Savings Bank, a company based on the Eastern Shore, said Monday it would buy the Salisbury branch of Bay National Bank for an undisclosed amount. Lutherville-based Bay National is selling the branch's $21 million deposit base and about 36 percent of its total loans to Hebron, according to a regulatory filing. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, would close by the end of September, the two companies said. Bay National has been operating under federal oversight since last year as it tries to recover from losses on bad mortgage loans.

Amy Mallon would still play basketball every day if she could. Her stellar high school, college and professional careers went by way too fast, and the Mount Hebron graduate could not let go. At 39, she's still in the game, although the ball is now in someone else's hands. As the associate head coach at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Mallon is passing on the knowledge she gained as an All-Metro player at Mount Hebron, an honorable mention All-American at Saint Joseph's and a professional player in Luxembourg and for a season with the Philadelphia Rage of the defunct American Basketball Association.

Larry Walker, a pastor who was the winner of the inaugural Comcast Parent Involvement Award last year, has filed paperwork with the Howard County Board of Elections to run for one of four available school board seats in 2010. Walker, 51, who graduated from Wilde Lake High School in 1976 and is the parent of two Mount Hebron High School graduates, said he wants to take his longtime involvement in the school system to the next level. "I've been involved in public education for 20 years," Walker said.

School officials are deciding what punishment three Mount Hebron High School students will receive after they were arrested in a break-in at the school, painted racist symbols inside the building and stole $5,200 in property. The 15-year-old boys, who all attend the school, are charged as minors with second- and fourth-degree burglary, two counts of malicious destruction of property, 13 counts of theft, and defacing school property with hate messages in the break-in, which occurred Dec. 6. One of the teens was arrested Dec. 11. The other two were arrested Monday.

School officials are deciding what punishment three Mount Hebron High School students will receive after they were arrested in a break-in at the school, painted racist symbols inside the building and stole $5,200 in property. The 15-year-old boys, who all attend the school, are charged as minors with second- and fourth-degree burglary, two counts of malicious destruction of property, 13 counts of theft, and defacing school property with hate messages in the break-in, which occurred Dec. 6. One of the teens was arrested Dec. 11. The other two were arrested Monday.

Three Ellicott City teens have been charged with breaking into Mount Hebron High School, painting racist symbols inside the building and stealing $5,200 in property. Police are also investigating an unrelated vandalism incident in which racist symbols were painted on a middle school in Laurel. The 15-year-old males, who all attend the high school, are charged with second- and fourth-degree burglary, two counts of malicious destruction of property, 13 counts of theft, and defacing school property with hate messages.